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...said he did not know whether such an actionwould leave the University open to a lawsuit...
Female athletes filed the class-action lawsuit in 1992 against Brown following the demotion of the full-varsity teams to "donor-funded" status. Donor-funded teams are supported only by private donations...
Such talk is not illegal--unless it can be directly linked to a crime. But a different strategy to attack proponents of violence was used in a lawsuit filed this month by the family of Dr. David Gunn. The suit, authored by attorney Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center, seeks to hold antiabortionist John Burt and his group, Rescue America, liable for Gunn's murder outside a Florida clinic two years ago. It claims that the gunman, Michael Griffin, was influenced by the group's violent rhetoric. "We don't have to show that anyone else pulled...
...Louisiana dentist violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when he turned away one patient who had AIDS and another who was HIV-positive, a federal judge has ruled. In the first court decision on such a civil lawsuit filed by the Justice Department, District Judge Stanwood Duval in New Orleans rejected dentist Drew Morvant's argument that the patients could have infected him or his staff. The judge is slated to decide damages in May. The government pressed a similar case in Texas, where an HIV-infected man got $100,000 from a dentist in an out of court settlement...
...quite willing to flout the law. Emboldened by the Republican takeover of Congress, a growing number of ordinary citizens, as well as local and state government officials, are rejecting federal authority and fighting for what they believe are their property rights. Last week the Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Nye County in Nevada from taking over federal lands and intimidating federal officials. Associate Attorney General John Schmidt said the Justice Department suit was intended to send a signal to other rebel movements in California, Idaho, New Mexico and Oregon and "put to rest the idea that...